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EFF: 16 Years of Protecting Your Rights

Filed in archive Companies , Consumer Rights by Marc on July 6, 2006

EFF: 16 Years of Protecting Your Rights
The AP marks the 16 year anniversary of the EFF in "EFF defends traditional liberties in high-tech world." The Electronic Frontier Foundation was born after U.S. Secret Service agents seized the computer of a small Texas board game company in 1990. The EFF started in Cambridge, moved to Washington DC, and has since settled in San Francisco.

According to the article, "Today, after expanding into such areas as intellectual property and moving its headquarters twice along with its focus, the EFF is reemphasizing its roots of trying to limit government surveillancelinks of electronic communications, while keeping a lookout for emerging threats even as the Internet and digital technologies become mainstream."

"In one of its highest-profile lawsuits to date, the EFF has accused AT&T Inc. of illegally cooperating with the National Security Agency to make phone and Internet communications available without warrants."

The EFF now has 25 employees and a $2.5 million raised primarily from 11,500 individual contributors.





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